“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.”

“I am not strange. I am just not normal.”

“Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic”

“The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!”

“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”

“Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.”

“My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul.”